Mining Software Components from Object-Oriented APIs

Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise, software components are admitted to be more reusable and unders...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2016-06
Main Authors: Shatnawi, Anas, Seriai, Abdelhak, Sahraoui, Houari, Al-Shara, Zakarea
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Object oriented programming
Reengineering
Reusable components
Reuse
Software reuse
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Summary:Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise, software components are admitted to be more reusable and understandable entities than object-oriented ones. Thus, in this paper, we propose an approach for reengineering object-oriented APIs into component-based ones. We mine components as a group of classes based on the frequency they are used together and their ability to form a quality-centric component. To validate our approach, we experimented on 100 Java applications that used Android APIs.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1606.00561